When a series of small meteorites bludgeons New York city, NASA
promptly discovers their origin to be of a Texas-sized asteroid that's
on course to collide with Earth. NASA assigns the best core driller
in the world, Harry Stamper, the job of training the astronauts that
will be sent to the asteroid's surface where they will drill to the
meteors core and detonate a carefully placed nuclear warhead. Inept
to accurately train the men in only ten days, Stamper brings on his
slapstick drilling crew, including his daughter's fiancé, to save the
Earth.